The Glassworker

The Glassworker

A love that could not be broken.

2024 · 98 min · ★ 7.1 · Animation, Family, Romance, War

A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by an impending war and the arrival of an army colonel to their seaside town.

Directed by Usman Riaz · Written by Moya O'Shea

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